Screaming Eagles on three-game skid with loss to Rimouski

RIMOUSKI, QUE. — The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles have dropped three games in a row after falling 4-1 to the Rimouski Océanic on Thursday night.

Maxim Trépanier opened the scoring in the first period for the Océanic before Eagles leading scorer Drake Batherson put his fourth of the year past former teammate Colten Ellis to knot things up after one. It was all Rimouski in the second with Charle-Edouard D'Astous beating Eagles netminder Kevin Mandolese early in the frame before Yannick Bertrand closed the period out with a power-play marker.

It was a scoreless third until Dmitry Zavgorodniy’s empty-netter made it 4-1. Mandolese (1-2) turned aside 26 of 29 shots in the loss while River Denys’ Ellis stopped 26 of 27 shots the Eagles sent his way to improve to 3-1 on the season.

It was the second game of a four-game road trip for the Eagles and their first game against a non-divisional opponent this season. Next up are the Shawinigan Cataractes on Saturday, followed by the Drummondville Voltigeurs on Sunday.

The team returns home Wednesday when they take on the Charlottetown Islanders at Centre 200 at 7 p.m.